Original Poems Promoting Social Justice

Emancipation | A Social Justice Poem by Langley Shazor

To whom it may concernI tender my resignationI will no longer fetchFor though lashingsHave lessened caninesThere is still biteIn this old dogMy shoes are hardAnd I shall dance for youNo longerWhispers in the darkWill gain decibels in the lightYour failed attemptsTo cut my tongueHas only removedAll the “yessahs” and “massuhs” from my vocabularyMy fate is my ownStained postsBearing fathers, sons, daughters, mothers, sisters, brothersOn the verge of collapseFrom the weight of injusticeRope-worn limbs buckleAs I make my last knotAnd exit these killing fields